A charge UK employers with an annual pay bill of more than £3 million pay through payroll, at 0.5% of their pay bill, with a £15,000 yearly allowance. Apprentices don't pay it.
When a large employer passes some of its unused apprenticeship levy funds to another organisation, often a smaller business or a charity, to pay for apprenticeship training there.
In England, the official description of what an apprentice in a particular job needs to know and be able to do, which the training and the end-point assessment are based on.
A stage in some application processes where you do a mix of interviews, group tasks and sometimes practical tests, often in person at the employer's site.
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